Chapter 4 – Riddle's diary
Dear diary…
30 August
In two days I start my first year at Hogwarts I'm really excited because I've always wanted to go and now I'm going to get to see Harry every day. Fred and George have told me so much about it, they said the sorting really hurts and it's done in front of the whole school watching I just hope it's one of those things that they say that you can't believe.
Last night I found the diary again and it says T.M Riddle on it but there's nothing in it not even a date I think someone might have forgotten it in their old Transfiguration book which is now mine.
The next day I opened the diary again, this time I wrote my name in it and my name disappeared but not before new handwriting appeared which I had not written. ''Hi Ginny, my name is Tom Riddle how did you come by my diary?'' was what was written on the page.
I've never had a book write back before but it's just like having a conversation with anyone isn't it, it can't be anything bad I'm sure loads of books are like this and so I started writing back. I explained how I came by the diary and Tom told me that he was merely a memory imprinted in this book. Dad always told me not to trust something if I can't see where it keeps it's brain but Tom said he was just a memory so it can't be all that bad at least that's what I thought, and so I began writing in the diary very frequently and Tom wrote back, he became my best friend and I trusted him completely I told him about how nervous I was to go to Hogwarts with all my second hand books I had already encounted the shame from the Malfoys in Diagon Alley and I was not looking forward to more of it.
I was leaving for Hogwarts the next day and I was nervous about so many things but everything I told Tom about he consoled me, he even made me believe that Slytherin isn't all that bad.
31 August
I start my first day at Hogwarts tomorrow and I am so scared despite all the things Tom told me I'm still really nervous what if I'm not a Gryffindor? My family would be so disappointed in me. Especially Ron, he would be so upset and so would the twins even though I know they would try and cover it up with a joke. I don't even want to think about Percy if I had to tell him that I was scared about what house I'm in I can't bear another lecture on not following in the twins footsteps and taking rules seriously, I hate it when he rambles on, it's one of the very few times I agree with Fred and George's ways of shutting him up I mean he wears his prefect badge at home although he doesn't know it say's 'pinhead' on it.
I pretended I was tired after the second mug of hot chocolate and said I was going to bed just to escape Percy's rambling (mum always has so much to eat on the table the last day of the holidays).
I went upstairs to my room and wrote to Tom before putting the diary in my drawer and going to bed feeling a little bit better about having someone to share my fears with especially since I felt more nervous about Harry being so close by.
1st September
Today is my first day at Hogwarts and I'm on the train after a really hectic morning we had to turn back twice because I forgot my diary and Fred and George forget their box of fireworks, I just couldn't start such an important year without my best friend and right now I need it more than ever. Harry and Ron didn't come through the barrier at Kings Cross station and they not on the train now either, Fred and George just laughed it off but I'm really worried what if something happened to Harry? Yes, I do care about Ron he's my brother but with Harry it's just different. Hermione's really worried as well at least I have someone who understands.
I'm about to get sorted and I keep glancing at the Gryffindor table while Professor McGonagall calls out names but still no sign of them I'm really getting worried now, this year is not starting out great. I'm in Gryffindor and I know I should be happy but I just can't be, not without Harry and Ron being here.